All Blacks vs Springboks II
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@Chris said in All Blacks vs Springboks II:
Noah Hotham available for this test match.
Hmmm, Ratima available too? If so, there's your 1 and 2 halfback for this game, if not, do they start Hotham or does he come off the bench?
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@African-Monkey said in All Blacks vs Springboks II:
@Chris said in All Blacks vs Springboks II:
Noah Hotham available for this test match.
Hmmm, Ratima available too? If so, there's your 1 and 2 halfback for this game, if not, do they start Hotham or does he come off the bench?
I think Ratima is still out, maybe Hotham comes back off the bench.
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@pakman said in All Blacks vs Springboks II:
That looks like a team that wants to play Tony ball. Will ask a lot more questions of our defence than last week and I think having Snyman and Esterhuizen on the bench gives them far more impact than last week's bench. Not sure how good their backline will be on defence though. Could be a very high scoring game.
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@stodders said in All Blacks vs Springboks II:
@pakman said in All Blacks vs Springboks II:
Will Razor roll the dice too?
I think Razor will roll the dice
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@Canes4life said in All Blacks vs Springboks II:
Ferner backs player from his own province to get more minutes in the Black jersey.
I really can’t stand it when Ferners get all provincial one-eyed when it’s the All Blacks we are talking about.
But hey, didn’t Scooter, Fletch, Codie and Will play well.
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Aphelele Fassi, Cheslin Kolbe, Canan Moodie, Damian Willemse, Ethan Hooker, Sacha Feinberg-Mngomezulu, Cobus Reinach, Jasper Wiese, Pieter-Steph du Toit, Siya Kolisi (capt), Ruan Nortje, Lood de Jager, Thomas du Toit, Malcolm Marx, Ox Nche. Bench: Marnus van der Merwe, Jan-Hendrik Wessels, Wilco Louw, RG Snyman, Kwagga Smith, Grant Williams, Manie Libbok, Andre Esterhuizen
Firstly a Monday team selection. Love the innovation.
Secondly, he’s picked the better halfback to start but the quicker halfback to finish.
Thirdly, in the history of Springbok rugby has a captain been dropped effectively mid-series?
Fourthly, a conventional 5/3 bench suggests to me that he is more concerned about his backline play so needs options.
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@Frank said in All Blacks vs Springboks II:
@stodders said in All Blacks vs Springboks II:
@pakman said in All Blacks vs Springboks II:
Will Razor roll the dice too?
I think Razor will roll the dice
He's gonna got out on a limb and make one change.I think there will be 3.
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@ACT-Crusader said in All Blacks vs Springboks II:
@Canes4life said in All Blacks vs Springboks II:
Ferner backs player from his own province to get more minutes in the Black jersey.
I really can’t stand it when Ferners get all provincial one-eyed when it’s the All Blacks we are talking about.
But hey, didn’t Scooter, Fletch, Codie and Will play well.
Kind of taking the piss mate, hence why I said Lakai or Jacobson as bench cover over Kirifi (also a Hurricane) in my initial comments, because they cover more positions. It’s just whenever I mention a Hurricane some on here get a little pissy.
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@akan004 said in All Blacks vs Springboks II:
@pakman said in All Blacks vs Springboks II:
That looks like a team that wants to play Tony ball. Will ask a lot more questions of our defence than last week and I think having Snyman and Esterhuizen on the bench gives them far more impact than last week's bench. Not sure how good their backline will be on defence though. Could be a very high scoring game.
Herein lies (at least some of) the Boks problems at the moment.
The introduction of a more attacking mindset (and to be clear - I am in favour) has affected our usually great defence.
If they can get the defensive pattern right to work with Tont-ball, we'd be in a better place.Then we just have to work on:
Lineouts
Mauls
Rucks
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@Billy-Webb would there be time to work on that stuff when they still haven't got the midfield lift off a ruck perfected?
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@Chris said in All Blacks vs Springboks II:
@African-Monkey said in All Blacks vs Springboks II:
@Chris said in All Blacks vs Springboks II:
Noah Hotham available for this test match.
Hmmm, Ratima available too? If so, there's your 1 and 2 halfback for this game, if not, do they start Hotham or does he come off the bench?
I think Ratima is still out, maybe Hotham comes back off the bench.
Christie is playing OK, but as others have said, needs to be pulled earlier as he faded a lot last week. I'd def do Ratima if fit and poss. look for Hotham to start
